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Against Sunset: Poems Hardcover – November 8, 2016

by Stanley Plumly (Author)
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
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A powerful new volume from the National Book Award finalist that demonstrates how the lyric is essentially elegiac.

Whether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, Against Sunset reveals Stanley Plumly at his most personal and intimate. As much an homage to the rich tradition of the Romantics as it is a meditation on memory itself, these poems live at the edges of disappearances.

From “Against Sunset”
The horizon, halfway disappeared between above and below―
night falls too or does it also rise out of the death-glitter of water?
And if night is the long straight path of the full moon pouring down
on the face of the deep, what makes us wish we could walk there,
like a flat skipped stone?

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  1. Print length
    112 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    W. W. Norton & Company
  4. Publication date
    November 8, 2016
  5. Dimensions
    5.8 x 0.7 x 8.6 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0393253945
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0393253948
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"For decades now, Stanley Plumly has extended, refined, and amplified the Grand Tradition of the lyric poem in English. He crafts his poems with a jeweler’s precision, but they are also informed with an almost-leonine urgency and passion. This degree of artistry is sadly rare in contemporary poetry, and it allows him to bear, always with nobility, the losses and rueful reckonings that are forced upon us in our twilight years. These poems recall the later Stevens and the later Yeats―and to say this is high praise indeed. Against Sunset is a collection by a contemporary master."
― David Wojahn

"The elm, the brickwork, the late-night bottle of wine with a friend, all that you have ever wished to store against oblivion: may these be blessed with light of the sort that emanates from every page of Stanley Plumly’s newest book. The poems are sonnet-haunted, even those that bear no trace of eight-and-six, with such deep courtesy do they honor the intelligence of form. I go to Stanley Plumly’s poems as they go to the past, to be taught how I ought to live."
― Linda Gregerson

About the Author

Stanley Plumly (1939–2019) authored eleven books of poetry, including the National Book Award finalist Old Heart, and four books of nonfiction. His honors include the Paterson Poetry Prize and Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, among others. Plumly was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland as well Maryland’s poet laureate from 2009 to 2018.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition (November 8, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393253945
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393253948
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 0.7 x 8.6 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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Mary Stewart Hammond
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best new collections by one of the of our great poets.
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2017
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I love this book more than almost anything I have read in a long time. It takes us into lost places in ourselves while sparkling our minds with new ways of seeing the world. The turns of phases, the vision throughout almost takes off the top of the head. The work is so accessible and intimate and new that one read's it straight through, and missing its company, goes straight back to the beginning.
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matt
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a beautiful collection by a major poet.
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2019
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Beautiful collection.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2016
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A masterful book, a logical extension of his previous Orphan Hours. Elegant, heartbreaking elegies. Bravo!
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A Reader
5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful lyric poems are the real thing
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2016
There's a lot of noise in the poetry world these days. Stanley Plumly's grave, beautiful lyric poems are the real thing, and this is probably his best book--rich with memory, the mellow intensity of landscapes, and the profound sustaining love of friends and family, here and long gone. In addition, who writes better sentences, or makes more shapely lines, than Plumly? Among all the noise, these poems are music.
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